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This paper reports an on-going effort to create a dependency tree bank for the Ainu language in the scheme of Universal Dependencies (UD). The task is crucial both language-internally (language revitalization) and language-externally (providing sources for new features and insights to UD). Since the language shows many of the representative …...

We propose ESCRITO, a toolkit for scoring student writings using NLP techniques that addresses two main user groups: teachers and NLP researchers. Teachers can use a high-level API in the teacher mode to assemble scoring pipelines easily. NLP researchers can use the developer mode to access a low-level API, which …...

MIAPARLE is a public web application that is designed to offer a range of CAPT (computer-aided pronunciation teaching) tools for L2 learners. Besides helping language learners to reduce their foreign-accentedness, the goal of the platform is to test these tools, gather feedback and improve them according to their educational impact. …...

This paper defines a measure called the comprehension-to-production (C2P) index to investigate whether nouns have predominance over verbs in children’s word learning that identifies a partial word learning period from comprehension to production. We applied the C2P index to noun predominance using cross-lingual child communicative development inventory databases and confirmed …...

This paper (1) presents the first partially manually verified treebank for Dutch CHILDES corpora, the AnnCor CHILDES Treebank; (2) argues explicitly that it is useful to assign adult grammar syntactic structures to utterances of children who are still in the process of acquiring the language; (3) argues that human annotation …...

In this paper, we present BabyCloud, a platform for capturing, storing and analyzing day-long audio recordings and photographs of children’s linguistic environments, for the purpose of studying infant’s cognitive and linguistic development and interactions with the environment. The proposed platform connects two communities of users: families and academics, with strong …...

This paper describes the collection of three longitudinal Corpora of German school children’s weekly writing in German, called H2 (H1 is available via LDC and contains some of the same students’ writing 2 years previously), E2 (E1 is not public), and ERK1. The texts were written within the normal classroom …...

Nowadays, with the fruitful achievements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) studies, the concern of using NLP technologies for education has called much attention. As two of the most spoken languages in the world, Spanish and Chinese occupy important positions in both NLP studies and bilingual education. In this paper, we …...

We present a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic to enrich the sparse collection of resources that can be leveraged for educational applications. The corpus consists of textbook material from the curriculum of the United Arab Emirates, spanning all 12 grades (1.4 million tokens) and a collection of 129 unabridged …...

This paper proposes a visualization system for chemical compounds. New chemical compounds are being produced by every moment and registration of chemical compounds to databases strongly depends on human labor. Our system uses Natural Language Processing technologies for extracting information of chemical compounds from text and for storing the extracted …...

We describe an opensource text-to-speech (TTS) voice building tool that focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and collaboration. Our tool allows anyone with basic computer skills to run voice training experiments and listen to the resulting synthesized voice. We hope that this tool will reduce the barrier for creating new voices and …...

Tokenization, or morphological analysis, is a fundamental and important technology for processing a Japanese text, especially for in- dustrial applications. However, we often face many obstacles, such as the inconsistency of token unit in different resources, notation variations, discontinued maintenance of the resources, and various issues with the existing tokenizer …...

This paper presents a system called FishWatchr Mini (FWM), which supports students in observing and reflecting on educational activi- ties such as presentation practices. Although video annotation systems are supposed to support such activities, especially reflection, they have been used by researchers and teachers outside the classroom, rather than by …...

The paper presents a method for parsing low-resource languages with very small training corpora using multilingual word embeddings and annotated corpora of larger languages. The study demonstrates that specific language combinations enable improved dependency parsing when compared to previous work, allowing for wider reuse of pre-existing resources when parsing low-resource …...

We present an open-source library (FonBund) that provides a way of mapping sequences of arbitrary phonetic segments in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) into multiple articulatory feature representations. The library interfaces with several existing linguistic typology resources providing phonological segment inventories and their corresponding articulatory feature systems. Our first goal was …...

This study describes the construction of a TOCFL learner corpus and its usage for Chinese grammatical error diagnosis. We collected essays from the Test Of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) and annotated grammatical errors using hierarchical tagging sets. Two kinds of error classifications were used simultaneously to tag grammatical …...

In this paper, we describe the process of creating an Amharic Dependency Treebank, which is the first attempt to introduce Universal Dependencies (UD) into Amharic. Amharic is a morphologically-rich and less-resourced language within the Semitic language family. In Amharic, an orthographic word may be bundled with information other than morphology. …...

We present TIGER 2.2-doc – a new set of annotations for the German TIGER corpus. The set moves the corpus to a document level. It includes a full mapping of sentences to documents, as well as additional sentence-level and document-level annotations. The sentence- level annotations refer to the role of …...

This paper describes a corpus of HPSG annotated trees for Spanish that contains morphosyntactic information, annotations for semantic roles, clitic pronouns and relative clauses. The corpus is based on the Spanish AnCora corpus, which contains trees for 17,000 sentences comprising half a million words, and it has CFG style annotations. …...

This paper presents three treebanks in Korean that consist of dependency trees derived from existing treebanks, the Google UD Treebank, the Penn Korean Treebank, and the KAIST Treebank, and pseudo-annotated by the latest guidelines from the Universal Dependencies (UD) project. The Korean portion of the Google UD Treebank is re-tokenized …...